---
id: "quote-reshaping-the-top"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶2"]
tags: ["c-suite", "automation"]
related: ["claim-ai-reshaping-c-suite", "contrarian-ai-threatens-top-not-just-bottom", "entity-tomas-chamorro-premuzic"]
speaker: "Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic"
speakers: ["Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic"]
quote: "AI is not only changing the bottom of the org chart, but also reshaping the top. Though the change is quieter and more structural or configural, senior leadership, executive, and C-suite roles are being redefined just as profoundly."
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-56-csuite-board-reshaped-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-c-suite-and-board-roles-are-being-reshaped-around-ai"
sourceTitle: "How C-Suite and Board Roles Are Being Reshaped Around AI"
---
# AI reshaping the top of the org chart

> "AI is not only changing the bottom of the org chart, but also reshaping the top. Though the change is quieter and more structural or configural, senior leadership, executive, and C-suite roles are being redefined just as profoundly."
> — [[entity-tomas-chamorro-premuzic|Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic]]

The thesis statement of the source. It is the plain-language version of [[claim-ai-reshaping-c-suite]] and the seed of the contrarian argument in [[contrarian-ai-threatens-top-not-just-bottom]]. Note the qualifier *'quieter and more structural or configural'* — the change at the top is real but less visible than headline-grabbing entry-level displacement.